The Christian in Complete Armour: The Ultimate Book on Spiritual Warfare

Satan with all his wits and wiles, shall never vanquish a soul armed with true grace; nay, he that hath this armour of God on shall vanquish him. Look

the Christian who seems to be so overmatched, is yet so unconquerable, II Cor. 12:9; James 5:11.

False faith, indeed, once foiled, seldom comes on again; but true faith riseth and fights more valiantly, as we see in Peter and other Scripture examples. Temptation

And here is all the devil gets; instead of destroying his faith which he aims at, he is the occasion of the refining of it, and thereby adding to its strength.

His subject thou art whom thou crownest in thy heart, and not whom thou flatterest with thy lips.

Christ and satan divide the whole world. Christ will bear no equal, and Satan no superior; and therefore, hold in with both thou canst not.

It is not, indeed, the bare knowing the truths of the gospel saves; but the gross ignorance of them, to be sure, will damn souls.

Truth lies deep, and must be digged for. Since

It is not the nature of grace, but the salt of covenant, keeps and preserves the purity of it. In

The state of unregeneracy is a state of impotency.

O how true are poor sinners to the devil's trust!

Labour to get Christ, and through him hopes of heaven, and thou takest the right road to content; thou

O loosen the roots of thy affections from the world, and the tree will fall more easily.

The more our life has been corrupted with hypocrisy and unfaithfulness, the weaker our faith will be in a dying hour.

The Christian is a born conqueror, the gates of hell shall not prevail against him.

The bloodiest tragedies in the world have been acted on the stage of the church; and the most inhuman massacres and butcheries committed on the harmless sheep of Christ.

That it is the saint's duty, and should be their care, not only to get an established judgment of the truth, but also to maintain a steadfast profession of the truth.

Never can we truly recover our courage, till we recover our holiness''If

Assurance rather is the fruit of faith. It is in faith as the flower is in the root.

Christ did not redeem and save poor souls by sitting in majesty on his heavenly throne, but by hanging on the shameful cross, under the tormenting hand of man's fury and God's just wrath.

It is faith on Christ that alone can purify thy heart. Without it thy washed face and hands'external righteousness I mean'will never commend thee to God.

So in the Christian there are many graces, but one new creature.

And so when thou art tempted to any sin, look not on it as a single sin, but as having all other sins in its belly.

Thus long did God forbear to commit his will to writing, because it, passing through so few, and those trusty hands, it might safely be preserved.

That he who means to be a Christian indeed, must endeavour to maintain the power of holiness and righteousness in his life and conversation.

Faith and repentance will be good doctrine to preach and hear to the end of the world; you

use all means for the discovery of sin, and as it breaks forth to be humbled for it, and be chopping at the root of it with this axe of mortification, and thou shalt see by the blessing of God what a change for the bette…

Christian, hath not God secretly instructed thee by his Spirit from the Word, how to read the shorthand of his providence? Dost

It is more honour to take one soul alive out of the devil's clutches, than to leave many slain upon the field. Erasmus

Confession of the mouth without faith in the heart is gross hypocrisy.

The news which the gospel hath in its mouth to tell us poor sinners is good. It speaks promises, and they are significations of some good intended by God for poor sinners.

Gospel peace comforts the soul, and that strongly, when it hath no other comfort to mingle with it.

Meditate of Christ's coming to judgment. Surely thou wilt not easily sleep while this trumpet, that shall call all mankind to judgment, shall sound in thy ear.

We are to choose affliction rather than sin, yea, the greatest affliction before the least sin. Moses

If ever you would have a blessed issue of this evil day, so as to stand in judgement before the great God, rest not till thou hast got into a covenant-relation with Christ.

What have we Bibles for, ministers and preaching for, if we mean not to furnish ourselves by them with armour for the evil day? In

Faith hath an incarnating virtue, as they say of some strengthening meat; it feeds upon the promise, and that 'is perfect, converting''or rather restoring ''the soul,' Ps. 19:7. Though

one affirmative from God's mouth for thy pardoned state, carries more weight, though of old date, than a thousand negatives from Satan's. David's

It is true, Christian, the debt thou owest to God must be paid in good and lawful money, but for thy comfort, here Christ is thy paymaster. Send

Prayer is a great heart-easer; it breathes out those distempered passions which, being bound up in others, break out when God at any time crosseth them in their wills.